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Genus of beetles

Monocrepidius
Monocrepidius bellus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Elateridae
Subfamily: Agrypninae
Tribe: Oophorini
Genus: Monocrepidius
Eschscholtz, 1829
Synonyms
  • Conoderus Eschscholtz, 1829
  • Silene Broun, 1893

Monocrepidius is a genus of click beetles in the family Elateridae. The genus has often been cited as Conoderus, but of the two names for this genus published simultaneously in 1829, the one selected by the First Reviser under the ICZN was Monocrepidius, rendering Conoderus the junior synonym.

Monocrepidius vespertinus

Selected species

References

  1. Eintheilung der Elateriden in Gattungen. JF Eschscholtz - Entomologisches Archiv, 1829
  2. Kundrata R, Kubaczkova M, Prosvirov AS, Douglas HB, Fojtikova A, Costa C, Bousquet Y, Alonso-Zarazaga MA, Bouchard P (2019) World catalogue of the genus-group names in Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera). Part I: Agrypninae, Campyloxeninae, Hemiopinae, Lissominae, Oestodinae, Parablacinae, Physodactylinae, Pityobiinae, Subprotelaterinae, Tetralobinae. ZooKeys 839: 83–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.839.33279

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Taxon identifiers
Conoderus
Monocrepidius
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